just caught this duo / aka Matt Valentine & Erika Elder / in concert. totally, utterly great. i realized i'd read about them last month, in the context of their having basically started the free folk scene that Davendra, Joanna et al get all the props for. but they were way further out there. weird dubby blues going into full-on psych jams. MV is hardcore on the guitar, sometimes samples and loops himself and layers it over and over til it's a wall of sound. beautiful. i'm a convert.
peep the record
here, along with Thurston Moore props
